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...Harvard's offensive juggernaut, however, is the fact that the line weathered the personnel changes and became better. The returning starters have jelled with the new arrivals and have combined to form a coherent blocking unit...
ORIGIN: Developed at the CIA's behest during the cold war to spy on the Soviet Union, the plane was created by Lockheed's famed Skunk Works unit (nicknamed after the "Skonk Works" in Al Capp's comic strip, Li'l Abner).The aircraft made its first flight in August...
Harvard's offensive line, led by Matthew R. Birk '98, has been crushing all of its opponents. Even when the team lost to Bucknell, Colby B. Skelton '98 managed to break Harvard's receiving record. At the same time, the defensive unit, including Jeffrey G. Compas '98, Timothy M. Fleiszer '98, Christopher K. Schaefer '98 and Christopher D. Smith '98, has been valiantly holding down the fort. And while Captain Brendan L. Bibro '98 has not played since being injured at Holy Cross earlier in the season, he has by no means been down for the count; his leadership...
There are heroes here: Paul Bunker, the only Army player to make Walter Camp's All-America team at two different positions, who died in a Japanese pow camp after smuggling his unit's flag past his captors; Ed White, who walked in space and died in Apollo 1; Joe Stilwell of China; Lucius Clay of the Berlin airlift; George Goethals of the Panama Canal. The biggest monument, however, a large pyramid, belongs to a general named Egbert Viele. An eminent engineer, he helped design the cemetery, which perhaps explains his prominence. The entrance to the pyramid is guarded...
Walk around. Walter Schulze was assigned to fly the news that the Great War was over to units east of the Rhine; on the way home, his plane crashed and he was killed. Art Bonifas, near the end of his tour, took a group out one day in 1976 to prune a poplar in the DMZ; the North Koreans set upon them and killed him. In Vietnam, Ron Zinn, twice an Olympic race walker, went out on patrol ahead of his unit and stepped on a mine. Bob Fuellhart was advising a Vietnamese battalion; while word was being sent...